British Council faces new investigation

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BRITAIN’S relations with Russia took another turn for the worse yesterday when prosecutors reopened an investigation into the British Council’s activities in St Petersburg.

The Interior Ministry closed an inquiry into the Council’s commercial English language courses in the city last year after Tony Blair personally raised the issue with President Putin, but the Prosecutor’s Office in St Petersburg said that it had reopened the case following an investigation by the Federal Security Service, the main successor to the KGB.

A spokeswoman for the St Petersburg Prosecutor’s Office told The Times: “We review all police decisions to close investigations. This